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“To the relatively poor (who are so much worse off than the poor absolutely) education is in most cases a mocking cruelty.”

— George Gissing

“The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think the believe every bit of it.”

— Leonard Baskin

“Ingeniously as their parents and teachers may attempt to protect the young from being drawn, to their detriment, into the moronic amusement park that…

— Philip Roth

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

“While I fold laundry I memorize things for school, dates of wars: French ones, African ones, Russian ones, battles of all ugly kinds. It's…

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

“Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle…

— Leslie McFarlane

Two things destroy people : fear of poverty and seeking for fanciful honors

— Anonymous

“The truth is that once one has been to these challenging, terrible places, they’re always strangely drawn back, because there is nothing that can…

— Don Eldon

“All these nice clothes, all these jokes and drinks and food, what good does it do? Tomorrow, folk will be poor and starving and…

— Tamora Pierce

“The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.”

— Victor Hugo

“We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of…

— Samuel R. Delany